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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by LeoPanthera on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @03:26PM (#32402867)
"we recommend not adding a publicly known phone number or email address to your Twitter account."

This is literally impossible. You can't create a Twitter account without a phone number. It sometimes allows you to do so, but then is blocked within 24 hours until you add one.

It's insulting that Twitter should lie about that.

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by alx__ on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @03:29PM (#32402931)
> publicly known

Note the PR words they used. Which amounts to, "If you want privacy, it's not our problem. Go create a virtual number somewhere."

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by codereviewed on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @03:48PM (#32403253)
IME, numbers they have classified has VOIP or otherwise not a consumer or business cell service are disallowed. Skype numbers do not work, and I have had a spotty experience with Google Voice numbers as well.
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